Yup. I've always found PS printers (or at least printers that have a good PS driver) to have better output than PCL, even if it is a bit slower.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 07:47, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: > > Specifically “Display Postscript” IIRC. > > > > The NeXT cubes actually ran display postscript for their screen render > pipeline for exactly his sort of reason… output device agnosticism. > > > > -sc > > > > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:44 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Printing PDF files > > > > In addition, PDFs (for text, at least, as opposed to embedded bitmaps/jpegs) > are internally encoded in PostScript, so the print/display drivers are tiny > PS interpreters. > > This actually is in the name of portability between platforms - especially > *nix. > > Kurt > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 07:24, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: > > Indeed. > > > > PDF’s are basically rasterized within the PDF program itself, and the > resulting bitmap is sent to the printer. > > > > Word, etc… send the text/font info to the printer, which rasterizes it as > part of the printing process. Vector graphics are passed tot eh printer as > well, altho bitmap graphics has to be sent as a bitmap blob. > > > > The end result tends to be longer print times and larger jobs… all in the > name “portability”. > > > > -sc > > > > From: Chris Orovet [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:20 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Printing PDF files > > > > When a pdf spools a 5 meg file can easily become a 200-250 meg file. No > matter what version of adobe ive used this has always been the case. > > Here is a 79 kb file that I printed as a comparison: > > > > > > It blew up to almost 400kb amost 5 times the size of the original doc. I did > a paperless conversion for my company a few years back. All docs were > converted to pdf or word. Word docs had no effect on my printers or print > servers. The pdf files slowed everything down. > > > > Regards, > > > > Chris Orovet Technical Support > > O: (727)812-0276 Ext. 125 > > F: (727)812-0278 > > Email: [email protected] > > Web: http://www.atsi-inc.com > > > > > > “Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are > precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden > meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own > evolution.” ~Chopra > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message and any attachments are for the > sole use of the intended recipient and may contain proprietary, confidential, > trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, > disclosure, or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. 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The user are printing text PDFs only. I’ve > taken a windows print server out of the way and still slow. I have tried > different drivers like the latest PS driver, HP LJ III, HP LJ 4, ect but > still slow. 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